CHAPTER 55

An Act to amend and reenact si 4 and 6 of Chapter 184 of the Acts of
Assembly of 1988, approved March 18, 1988, which provided a new

charter for the town of Manassas.
[H 38]

Approved February 22, 1960
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 4 and 6 of Chapter 184 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, ap-
proved March 18, 1938, be amended and reenacted, as follows: _

§ 4. The municipal officers of said town shall, beginning * thirty days
after the effective date of this act, and thereafter, consist of a mayor, *
siz councilmen, a town clerk and a town treasurer (and a town manager
so long as the town shall retain a managerial form of government). The
mayor and councilmen shall be elected by the qualified voters of said town.
The town manager, town clerk and town treasurer shall be appointed by
the council as hereinafter provided.

§ 6. * Within thirty days after the effective date of this act, there
shall be elected by the qualified voters of the town of Manassas, * two
councilmen, who shall be electors of the said town * and who shall take
office thirty days after the effective date of this act. For this purpose, the
Circuit Court of Prince William County, or a judge thereof in vacation,
forthwith shall order a special election which shall be conducted within
the period herein specified according to law. The candidate receiving
the highest number of votes in said election shall hold office through
the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred sixty-three and thereafter
until his duly elected successor shall have qualified; and the candidate re-
ceiving the second highest number of votes in said election shall hold
office through the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred sixty-one
and thereafter until his duly elected successor shall have qualified; provided
that in the case of a tie among the candidates receiving the greatest number
of votes, such candidates shall cast lots, and the winner shall take the
greater term and the loser the lesser term. If more than two candidates
are tied, the losers of the first cast shall cast lots for the lesser term.

Those councilmen in office on the effective date of this act shall con-
tinue in office until the expiration of their respective terms and thereafter
until their respective successors shall have been duly elected and qualified.

On the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred sixty-one, and on the
second Tuesday in June every two years thereafter, there shall be elected
by the qualified voters of the town three councilmen, who shall be electors
of the said town, who shall hold office for terms of four years beginning
on the first day of September after the date of their election and thereafter
until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified.

On the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and
every four years thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters
of the town of Manassas, a mayor, who shall be one of the electors of said
town, and whose term of office shall begin on the first day of September
following the date of his election and continue for four years thereafter,
and until his duly elected successor shall have qualified.

The council may fill any vacancy that may occur in the membership
of the town council for any unexpired term.

Each member of the council may receive a salary to be fixed by the
council, payable at such times and in such manner as the council may direct.

The mayor may receive a salary to be fixed by the council, payable in
such manner and at such times as the council may direct.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.